The motif of childhood in Bruno Schulz’s novel Cinnamon Shops

Abstract

This article analyses Bruno Schulz’s autobiographical novel Cinnamon Shops in the aspect of mythological thinking. It is stressed that the concept of ‘childhood’ is the foundation of his mythopoeia largely shaped by the author’s memories of his father and other members of the household.

Keywords

• bruno schulz
• literary text
• genre
• literary memoirs
• concept of ‘childhood’
• myth
• ‘brilliant era’
• male and female elements